Ben Mezrich, THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK:
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ben Mezrich, the bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires (which was adapted into The Social Network), joins Zibby to discuss his latest thriller, The Antisocial Network. The book chronicles the GameStop stock scandal that took place earlier this year. Ben discusses why his stories often read very cinematically, his unusual path to becoming a writer, and the ways in which his young kids' internet habits reveal our society's economic future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:32.9 | And my website is Zibby Owens.com. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Ben Mesrich is the author of the Anti-Social Network, the GameStop short squeeze, and the rag-tag group of amateur traders that |
| 0:45.5 | brought Wall Street to its knees. Ben is the New York Times bestselling author of the accidental |
| 0:51.1 | billionaires, which was adapted by Aaron Sorkin, into the David Fincher film, |
| 0:55.8 | The Social Network, and also Bringing Down the House, which was adapted into the number one box office hit |
| 1:01.4 | film 21. He also wrote many other bestselling books. His books have sold over six million copies |
| 1:08.2 | worldwide. Welcome, Ben. Thanks so much for coming on. |
| 1:11.0 | Moms Don't have time to read books |
| 1:12.5 | to discuss the anti-social network. |
| 1:14.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:15.9 | I'm excited to talk about it. |
| 1:17.5 | Oh, I also love, by the way, |
| 1:19.4 | that basically you infuse all of your stuff |
| 1:23.1 | with your own parenting and being a father |
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